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October 30, 2019 12:50 am

Indian Nuke Plant's Network Reportedly Hit By Malware Tied To North Korea

North Korea is reportedly behind a cyberattack on India's Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. "The malware, identified by researchers as North Korea's Dtrack, was reported by [former analyst for India's National Technical Research Organization (NTRO) Pukhraj Singh] to have gained 'domain controller-level access' at Kudankulam," reports Ars Technica. "The attack has been reported to the government." From the report: The attack likely did not affect reactor controls, but it may have targeted research and technical data. The attack apparently focused on collection of technical information, using a Windows SMB network drive share with credentials hard-coded into the malware to aggregate files to steal. Dtrack was tied to North Korea's Lazarus threat group by researchers based on code shared with DarkSeoul, a malware attack that wiped hard drives at South Korean media companies and banks in 2013. Singh alluded to the attack in a September 7 tweet, in which he wrote, "I just witnessed a casus belli in the Indian cyberspace and it sucks at every level." He said that he did not discover the intrusion himself but learned of it from "a third party." Singh passed on the information to India's National Cyber Security Coordinator on September 4, and the third party shared the indicators of compromise "over the preceding days." Kaspersky later identified the malware involved as Dtrack, Singh said. Officials at Kudankulam have said that the plant is safe from cyber attack because the control systems network is isolated from the plant's administrative networks, but they have not addressed what data may have been stolen.

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